je me rends
I surrender
Posted on 06/17/2012 8:20:22 AM PDT by the scotsman
'They killed with apparent impunity, effortlessly dodging capture by the world’s deadliest special forces.
Nothing, it seemed, could stop Al Qaeda’s two top Iraqi terrorists as they orchestrated a campaign of high-profile kidnappings, car bombings and executions in Baghdad and beyond.
At the height of their reign, one of them, Maher Ahmed Mahmoud az-Zubeidi, better known by his alias Abu Rami, was believed to have been responsible for the murders of 200 people each month.
Yet perhaps even more ferocious was his charismatic co-leader, Abu Uthman, whose exploits in two battles in Fallujah earned him the nickname Abu Nimr – The Tiger.
The American military bestowed on him a more prosaic title: Number One HVI (high-value individual).
Uthman was linked to the murder of British aid worker Margaret Hassan and the kidnapping of British peace activist Norman Kember and – like Rami – had the blood of hundreds of soldiers and civilians on his hands.
But by mid-2008, despite years of trying, US special forces were still no nearer tracing either of the men who, helped by a vast network of supporters, rarely slept in the same beds for longer than a few weeks.
The Russians were also searching. Rami was blamed for the beheading of four embassy workers abducted from a diplomatic car in Baghdad and Vladimir Putin put a £7 million price on his head and a team of assassins on his tail.
Until today the true extent of the Al Qaeda men’s murderous influence has never been revealed and neither has the extraordinary story of how they were eventually stopped.
The Mail on Sunday can disclose that it was not US special forces who finally killed Rami and captured Uthman – as was reported at the time by The Washington Post – but the SAS.'
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Yeah, believe me, I know. So far I have avoided having a triathlete looking down on me while thinking “knocking out that big dude made me look real good” :-)
Somehow a French Shepard guard dog just doesn’t inspire fear.
I remember another sci-fi story where aliens come to earth to establish peaceful relations. Everything is going well, but the ship telepath approaches the commander and suggests they are dealing with the wrong species. He bleives dogs are telepathically controlling humans. He points out that humans work long hours to provide homes and food for dogs, pamper them, and treat them like family. Moreover, he is somehow blocked from reading their minds. And the humans even gave them a pair of dogs to take back to their world. The commader dismisses his concerns as crazy.
The telepath decides to wait to bring it up when they get back rather than continue to argue with his commander. As he goes to look out the open door of the spaceship before it’s closed for takeoff, one of the dogs runs under his feet, he trips and falls to his death. The story ends with the ship heading home, and the commander bending down to scratch the ear of the dog laying at his feet.
Bisto gravy is enough to kill anyone.
Oi!.
Nothing wrong with Bisto.
If American, he might have used Kitchen Bouquet.
Oy!
I hate Bisto!
My English-born wife loves Bisto. She doesn’t have to special order it from England anymore since a local grocery store sells it. For her it’s nothing but Bisto. Bisto is alright, but I like all sorts of gravy brands. I just wish they’d sell Vimto over here.
Why?.
70% of the UK uses it and its been popular for over 100 years. I use it. Bisto is perfectly fine stuff.
Vimto, I don’t know. I have Maggai on my shelves and I don’t like that either (pure salt).
I recommend everyone read Nigel Slater’s fun book “Eating for England,” in which he writes about his love-hate relationship to Bisto (and other British food items). The book has a gorgeous photo of Brighton Rock on the cover.
It’s just that I make my gravy from scratch. I do use Bird’s Custard to thicken my gravy. A trick I learned from my cooking and fashion idol, Nigella Lawson.
Still think there should be a 20 year wait before releasing any info.
Hmmm, I’ve never heard of Bird’s Custard. Who carries it?
It’s a British product. A & P carries it and so does Wegman’s (here on the East Coast). It’s almost pure cornstarch and works perfectly well in gravy if you run out of flour.
Those french will sleep with anybody . . .
Ah, Nigella.
I am too busy masturbating to pay attention to what she says. LOL.
Brighton Rock.
Also a classic novel and one of the greatest British films ever made.
A classic example of British ‘film noir’ (which despite its French name, has become wrongly identified as purely an American form of cinema, the British made some brilliant films in the genre for over 20 years).
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